January Transfer Window 2012/2013 Season Rumours/Signings

No it's not. Saying Balotelli is overrated doesn't mean you think he's ****. It simply means that OMS doesn't think he's as good as he's made out by some people - he could still think that Balotelli is a very good player and therefore that Welbeck too is a decent player.
 
No, you said it doesn't do Welbeck any favours. The implication being that it suggests you think Welbeck is ****. By saying Balotelli is overrated, it has no direct link to what you think of Welbeck - it simply means that you don't think Balotelli is as good as he's made out to be. How good you think Welbeck is will then depend on how good Balotelli is made out to be, hence why I said it's not necessarily true :)
 
I'm guessing this will only interest semi-pro waster but it looks like Hearts are about to sign Michael Ngoo on loan. He's like a ****, young Peter Crouch.
 
JohnnyG said:
I *think* these sort of long term contracts (like Pardew's for instance) are to help with FFP, tax and other accounting issues as let's say he cost £6.5m then that's only £1m a year for those purposes. I don't know the exact details for it but I believe it softens the blow :)
Baz might know, he's an accountant.
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It'll spread the cost of the transfer fee over a longer period (not necessarily in real terms but in accounting terms) but thats about it and given the size of the fee, i cant see the point of it from a ffp point of view. There's no ffp benefit to Pardews contract though.

edit: I wrote the above on my phone earlier. To explain a bit more - the FFP benefit of spreading Sissoko's fee over 6 years rather than, for example, 4 years would be tiny (roughly £200k per year). There's no way Newcastle are going to give Sissoko a guarantee of an extra 2 years wages for the sake of saving £200k on the next 4 years accounts.

I can only imagine he's on fairly low wages and Newcastle are confident that they'll have no problem shipping him off if he fails and by tying him down for 6 years they'll be in a decent bargaining position if he's a hit and bigger clubs come in for him.
 
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Unfortunately for you good wasn't the word.

Other than his size and the way neither make the most of their height, he's not that much like Crouch. Ngoo's just a bit odd; he's neither particularly skillful or quick but he somehow manages to go on mazey runs, finding himself in a great positions to score before he ****s it up.
 
The__Malteser said:
Coutinho close to signing for Liverpool. A fee of €13M has been agreed.

Not worth 13M at all.
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Sky Italia aside, every other source (UK & Italian) are reporting it as €10m/£8.5m.

2 years ago if you'd tell me we'd be signing him I'd have been over the moon, regardless of the fee, I've not seen a great deal of him in the last year or so but he's an exciting prospect
 
Stewy said:
Looks tiny?
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5 foot 8 according to wiki. How he adapts to getting battered by the likes of Stoke is going to be his biggest test. I mentioned before that I read a couple of articles on him ever since he was first linked with us and the one big concern is that they say he's struggled to adapt to the physical nature of Serie A.
 
And what would Southampton's new manager know about the physical side of the PL? He's only been here 5 minutes :p

I'm not too sure how interested Southampton really were either. A couple of journo's close to them didn't think they bid at all and it was being leaked by Inter to drive up his price.
 
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Jano said:
Could well be more to do with his contract, I don't think he was on much at Schalke, so they probably couldn't charge too much as he'd just buy out his contract instead.
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As far as I know, no player in any of the major European Leagues have ever bought out their contract and I'm all but certain that it can't be done in January anyway.
 
Jano said:
I thought they could in their last year/6 months, could have sworn that was being said last summer about a few players.
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The only thing I know of is the Webster ruling that allows any player that's been at a club for 2 or 3 years (depending whether they signed their deal before they turned 28) could buyout the remainder of their contract and were free to join who they like. As far as I know this can only be done during the summer transfer window though.

The last I heard of this ruling was a few years ago when some small foreign club were in a legal battle with their player that was trying to take advantage of this rule and the old G-14 clubs were paying their legal fees. I've not heard of any major incident where a player has bought out his deal since then and it was reported at the time that the top sides believed they could challenge the ruling in court.
 
Rodgers has told 5live and a journo from our official site that there will be no more business from us however in his post match press-conference he wasn't quite so certain, saying a deal for Tom Ince is complicated and it would be unlikely to happen this window.
 
What time is the deadline tomorrow? It always used to be midnight but the last couple of windows closed earlier iinm?

edit: And shamelessly stolen from twitter - BBC have confirmed Kenwright has bid £15m for Negrado. £1m up front and £14m if Everton win the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.
 
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